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>> good morning, we're following several developing stories this monday, october 13. one person is dead after a nasty crash in northeast philadelphia. we have the video. a very unusual lost and found case involving a prosthetic lick has been involved. new details in a live report. and health officials in dallas are trying to figure out how a nurse contracted with ebola died of the virus last
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week. matt o'donnell has the morning off. first a quick look at weather and traffic let's go to david and karen, good morning. a cloudy start out there today. let's see that on satellite as clouds arriving in the southwest. over the last couple hours sprinkles and showers there's more to the west coming in our direction. today will not be a washout. but at times there could be a shower popping through. 57 in philadelphia, that's not too bad. 51 allentown, 51 trenton, 55 reading, 57 wilmington and 6 2 sea isle city and roads damp from early predawn sprinkles and showers this morning. if you catch the bus, 55 by 6:00, 57 by 8:00, cool, mostly cloudy, dry, chance of spotty shower. as we head through the day, 8:00, 59, by noon, 64. high around 3:00, 68 and still on 67 by 6:00 remember to load that stormtracker 6 app on your
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smart phone as well as 6abc news app so you can keep up with what is going on, weather and news while on the train station on bus. karen rogers joins us. anything going on on the roads. >> one issue. we expect light volume with the columbus day holiday. looking here new jersey turnpike southbound. southbound turnpike blocked past exit 2, exit for 322 in gloucester county accident involving an overturned tractor-trailer blocking all lanes. meantime, 295 runs parallel. we see the green traffic flow showing no big issues 295. 95 if you head southbound blocked exit 2 at 322. watch for that. otherwise good to go. live pennsylvania turnpike westbound willow grove speeds like 65. david mentioned roads are damp out there. be careful as you travel. no overnight construction and looking good pennsylvania
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turnpike i-95 approaching airport in delaware county and clear here as well, tam. >> thank you, karen. and we're following several developing story this morning starting with deadly crash in northeast philadelphia. it happened on 2700 willis road around midnight. driver, 29-year-old woman was killed after losing control, slamming into a parked car and flipping her car on to its side. no one else was hurt in that crash and it is still under investigation. and concern continues to grow over ebola and current focus is in dallas, texas. a nurse that cared for a man that died of ebola is now in the hospital herself with the disease. abc tahman bradley has the latest. >> this morning the first transmission of ebola, a nurse in her 20s who cared for dunkin contracted the disease. the hospital says the nurse was wearing full protective gear.
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face mask, two layers of gloves and shoe coversch the woman was exposed due to a breach of protocol at the hospital and may not be the only person. >> unfortunately it is possible in the coming days we'll see additional cases of ebola. >> the nurse started showing symptoms friday and drove herself to the hospital. this morning officials are retracing her steps trying to determine who she had contact with. one person as a precaution is placed in isolation. >> definitely it's scary being in dallas. when it's right here. >> those same hazmat crews that decontaminated dunkin's apartment is working on the nurses while officials spread word on person and phone. >> please be advised a healthcare working living in your area tested positive for ebola virus. although cdc issued guidelines for hospital for identifying and treating ebola some healthcare workers are confused. when nurses become infected they're blamed for not following
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protocols. that is not going to work. this morning health officials ruled out ebola for a passenger that was sick aboard a flight that landed lax and patient in boston just back from west africa. tahman bradley, "abc news," washington. >> we'll continue to bring you up dates about the new ebola patient on 6abc.com. you can find five important facts of spread of this potentially deadly virus and new screening measures underway at several major airports. happening rights now, oscar pistorius is back in court in south africa. he'll learn if he's headed to prison. this is a live look inside the courtroom. pistorius is back in court since convicted of culpable homicide last month. a judge found him not guilty of reeva steenkamps murder but he was found guilty of u.s. he equivalent of manslaughter. he can get anything from suspend
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sentence and fine to 15 years behind bars. >> to a shooting in grocery store parking lot here at homestarted with an argument involving two men. philadelphia police responded to the torresdale section of the city 8700 block of frankford avenue last night. investigators say a 38-year-old man shot another man who threatened him with a knifech the injured man will face charges. right now he remains in critical condition. the shooter meantime has a license to carry. new information on a local story that has gone viral. veteran has been reunited with his prosthetic leg after a woman snatched it outside lincoln financial field. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live in southwest philadelphia with the details. katherine it makes you say only in philadelphia. >> reporter: yeah unfortunately it would seem, tam. if you go to phillies eagles game you recognize this victim, sunny forest junior known to be outside the games one of his
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popular shuts love is like a baseball game. early this morning he was at south detectives retrieving his leg stolen from him last night at a parking lot near lincoln financial field. he spoke to "action news" this morning outside south detectives after the leg was found. military veteran told police 8:30 last night intoxicated woman in 20s wearing eagles clothing ran up to him, jumped open his lap and broke his micorphone. she apologized offered to pay for it and said no problem i have another one the next thing cutting through cars with mouthetic leg in hand septa police found it left behind and there's surveillance of this woman that has not been released. but he doesn't think she should be locked up but someone should talk to her about the repercussions of her actions. >> one day she'll get old and become -- i hope she don't get in the position where she's disabled or anything, but, she's
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going to have to look back on this thing. >> reporter: again forest said there's surveillance of this video not yet released and so far no arrests in the case. live outside lincoln financial field, katherine scott, "channel 6 action news." new york giants came to the linc thinking they were hot stuff, 3-game winning streak and hot eli manning. they had a shut out our eagles 27-0. eagles scored first touchdown nick foles to zach ertz. foles through 248 yard and two touchdowns and two interceptions. lesean mccoy kept the defense from coming unfolded. on defense the birds sacked eli manning six times. maybe nobody told the giants to protect the quarterback. on their way to shutting out grints scored 105 in the last
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three games. >> the big difference in other games, we executed. in all phases. offensively, defensively, and in special teams. it was not a purt here or there. it was consistent start to finish. >> this was not a game but beating. one down note sproles left the game with knee injury. no word yet on whether or not this will sideline him. he and the rest of the eagles have two weeks to get better the 5-1 birds have a bye week. nydia. >> tam, thank you. 4:39 now details about the student arrested for posting on-line threat against penn state university. according to campus police a 20-year-old man living off campus told officers it was meant to be a prank. his message on the site yik yack threatened to shoot up penn state social life center today at noon. they found no weapons at the suspect's home. he's scheduled to ab raindz on one count of terroristic threats
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today. >> here's stories you didn't see last night. sale on hair extensions at a florida beauty supply store got out of hand and forced cops to use pepper spray. and stink bugs could put pennsylvania farmers in the red. how the bugs are costing them millions. david. we have the kids dressed in coats this morning. tee shirts. not over board with the rain gear. spotty showers today. latest on radar and future spotty showers today. latest on radar and future tracker 6 coming up next
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>> welcome back. it felt like fall this weekend. what does the week look like. >> milder, return to summerlike companies the next couple days. we're working our way in that direction today. as we look at stormtracker 6 double scan there's a couple of light sprinkles and showers around. you see some over the delaware bay and state of delaware and bits and pieces of green in montgomery county. it's all light stuff. if you happen to see raindrops on windshield on moisture on the roadways this morning that'sps what's causing it. as we look outside, we have sky6. and we're now looking at cloudy skies over philadelphia for the most part. and staying mainly cloudy today with sunny breaks. that's the way it's looking. 57 currently is your temperature in independent, dew point 48.
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and you see the numbers are cool across the region with most of us in the 50s this morning. i'm bringing on new feature this morning we'll go with always on day part of the forecast you can get an idea of how the rest of the day is looking. as we look at future tracker 6 it looks like it remains fairly cloudy today. not real wet. every now and then a spotty shower. after 3 or 4:00 i can see more of the stuff popping up and same sort of showers that we have seen overnight and that we're seeing right now across the region. real spotty and light for the most part. 9:00 tonight there may be a little hang around in the northern suburbs. generally speaking mainly dry today. and a little milder than yesterday, 57 degrees by:00, 6 by 11:00 and by 2:00, 67 with high of 68 around 3:00. we're looking at mainly cloudy skies. we cannot rule out occasional sunny breaks. high temperatures across the region today not much of a rain. 68 in philadelphia and wilmington and mid 60s allentown and reading and 67 trenton and
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upper 60s in cape may and atlantic city down the shore. tomorrow things change we end up with warmer air surging back in highs into the 70s in some spots especially philadelphia north through the afternoon and up into the dinner hour before we sag down into the 60s again. big, warm change tomorrow. hurricane fay push as way from bermuda. there's another system in the next half hour i'll show you out of other side of leeward islands that could become a tropical stimulator on tomorrow. so, the tropics getting active late in the season at least a little bit. your exclusive accuweather 7-day. 68 today's high. mainly sunny skies. columbus day out. there warmer tuesday high of 77 and another 77 on wednesday. and not only will it be warm the next couple afternoons but it may be a little more humid. wednesday afternoon there could be a shower or thunderstorm popping up. better chance of that at night. and then thursday, does look like a cloudy, rainy day and
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rain on thursday could actually be steady at times wheeling lon the lookout for street flooding wednesday night to friday. great, friday, saturday nice and saturday and sunday nice. new on "action news" police in florida used pepper spray on shoppers after a scene at a beauty supply store on friday. as part of the grand opening it was give ago way free hair exceptions valued between $55 and $100 0. customers started pushing and shoving and a pregnant woman was pushed down. surveillance shows two officers used pepper spray on the crowd. they believe police overreacted. no one was seriously hurt. authorities in new york city are trying to find this guy. he climbed up out of a subway grate and lobbed two smoke bombs into a restaurant. he then disappeared right back
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from where he came. no one was hurt. but the incident is raidsing questions about security within the big apple transit system. tam. >> thank you, nydia. gas prices seem to be falling through the floor and that's topping business this morning. prices dropped 12 cepts over the last three weeks and national average for regular is 3.26, philly higher $3.31 and more news out of ac, philadelphia developer bart blatstein plans to buy the pier shops at ceasars in ac there's agreement to buy the shopping center but sales price was not made public. wall street is open for business columbus day after last week's roller coaster ride. october is most volatile month for stocks. futures this morning seem to be pointing to lower sglop as we all know stink bugs stivrping and they're making things hard for pa farmers since they love fruits and vegetables.
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farm in western pa lost nearly 80% of certain type of apple and researchers say they don't have a way to get rid of them. back to you. >> 4:47. still ahead on "action news." two salvation army buses were torched in the nation's heartland and police say it was done intention alley. >> plus a horrifying moment as inflatable halloween house is lifted off the ground and flew through the air with two toddlers inside. through the air with two toddlers inside. more when "action news" take on top of changing weather situation with 6abc.com. this is 6abc.com/warm for stor are you busy?
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>> time to get a first look at road with karen rogers. >> problems in war witch township, gloucester county, this problem involving an overturned truck. because of the investigation they have the southbound turn pike blocked past exit 2. that's the exit for 2. if you try to head in this area and southbound towards delaware take 295 running parallel and no problems right now taking 295 southbound and ben salem, street
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road blocked at asbury avenue. both go to alternates to deal with that one. construction going on haverford township delaware county manilla road between darby and earling ton road. 9 to 3 today through end of december. you deal with this for a while. use eggle road or route 1, township line reed to get around problems there. one last look outside schuylkill near spring garden dry. you're seeing no problems this morning construction not causing an issue as we look live on the schuylkill. let's head over to david. all right, carp. on the big board flight track they are morning looking at a lot of flights in the area 1100 or getting close to that you see weather in central portion of the country and this area right around dallas, texas up to
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eastern oklahoma and pushing towards little rock, arkansas later today. it does have the possibility of severe weather. flight delays definitely possible in oklahoma, texas, eastern portion of texas and also perhaps little rock, arkansas. there's also fairly heavy showers and thunderstorms further east in parts of kentucky and tennessee. if you have travel plans to nash stlil morning or knoxville or louisville, those are the other areas affected by this. over on the east coast we're looking at cloud cover. and spotty shower. high temperatures getting up to 68. no big travel delays on eastern united states or up and down the coast all the way to florida. west coast also looking clear. 68 today's high. nydia. >> david, thank you. the air traffic control facility near chicago reopened overnightch center has been closed for weeks because of a fire allegedly set by a contract worker who was trying to commit suicide. the incident led to 5,000 flight cancellations and faa has been
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work around the clock to make sure the building reopened before the morning rush. >> two toddlers were injured one critically when they were trapped inside a bouncy house after it wept airborne. it happened farm in nashville until new hampshire the toy was inflated to dry out and not operational. the children crawled inside and then a wind gust sent tractor-trailer flying. fire officials believe the structure traveled 50 to 60 feet when the bounce house hit the ground the 2 and 3-year-old girl and boy were trapped inside. the
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>> new on "action news" a fire bug in oklahoma targeting the salvation army. investigators in shawnee say they think arson was to blame for torched salvation army bus. no one was injured in the weekend firech the army called it the work horse. it was used every day to transfer kids from 7 different area schools. costs for replacement is $50,000. a second bus was also damaged. the remaining couples on "dancing with the stars" look different tonight it's week of switch-up. the drastic change was introduced last year fans voted to give each store a different professional partner. the new pairings went out last week on "good morning america" and jessie jay will be appearing as guests judge and performer. catch the moves right here tonight on 6abc at 8 a.m.
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call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v >> good morning it's 5 a.m., monday, october 13. matt o'donnell is off and nydia han join us us. developing this morning. >> forced out by fire fast moving flames leave five hem homeless. >> and new from last night a veteran robbed in philadelphia is reunite the with his limb. fly, eagles fly, the birds beat their bitter rivals in first shutout in 18 years. >> what a game! we'll get to that in a moment. first up weather and traffic and go right over to david and karen. good morning. >> i think a lot